Junior Achievement Income - Career Clusters

Enjoy building things? Workers in this cluster solve problems and use creative ideas to build homes, businesses, and infrastructure, such as roads and bridges.

• Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

• Architecture and Construction

If you appreciate the dazzling special effects in movies, enjoy talking into a microphone, or are wowed by creative magazine layouts, this cluster may have the career for you.

• Arts, A/V Technology, and Communication

• Business Management and Administration

Ever thought of being a teacher, a coach, or a counselor? Workers in this cluster teach, study human behavior and how people learn, and explore ways to improve the education process

• Education and Training

• Finance

If giving advice or planning what goes where in a city interests you, consider this cluster about public service at the local, state, national, or international level.

• Health Science

• Government and Public Administration

People enjoy vacations and dinners out thanks to workers in this industry.

• Hospitality and Tourism

• Human Services

Designers and technocrats take notice. This cluster offers careers as computer support specialists, database administrators, information security analysts, Web developers, network architects, and software developers.

• Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security

• Information Technology

This cluster is right for people who enjoy hands-on physical work or who play a supportive role in the manufacturing process in which finished products reach consumers.

• Manufacturing

• Marketing, Sales, and Services

Like math? Think it would be fun to design an airport? Workers in this cluster provide scientific research and technical services, including studying the structure of the earth.

• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

• Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics

Locates and marks sites selected for conducting geophysical and prospecting activities. Salary: $56,230/$27.04 hourly

• Carpenter

• Surveyor

Produces food for people and animals. Salary: $69,300/$33.32 hourly

• Farmer/rancher

• Forest worker